Laura Marling

Folk singer Laura Marling isn't settling for just writing and performing her rich and textured acoustic melodies. She's stretching out into make electrifying records, new colors on an already rich palette. Her amped up approach is sure to go over big at the 9:30 Club venue in Washington tonight (8 p.m.). Laura Marling is a two-time Brit Award nominee and once for the coveted Mercury Prize. She was the winner in 2011 of "Best Solo Artist" at the NME Awards (New Musical Express is a magazine, the British equivalent to Rolling Stone). "Marling is the most compelling singer-songwriter of the U.K. roots-revival scene, with a voice that conjures young Joni...

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